By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-02 17:07:10 | Updated at 2025-01-08 18:29:04
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Carville on Harris loss: ‘It is and it always will be the economy, stupid’
The Hill ^ | 01/02/2025 | Alex Gangitano
Posted on 01/02/2025 8:59:50 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Democratic strategist James Carville, who coined the phrase “It’s the economy, stupid,” admitted his predictions for the 2024 race were wrong and that Democrats lost because of the economy.
Carville, in an opinion piece for The New York Times, noted that while he truly believed Harris would win the election, he is reviewing what went wrong for Democrats since President-elect Trump’s decisive victory in November.
“I’ve been going over this in my head for the past two months, all the variables, all the what-ifs, all the questions about Joe Biden’s re-election decisions and what kind of Democrat or message might have worked against Donald Trump,” he wrote. “I keep coming back to the same thing.”
“We lost for one very simple reason: It was, it is and it always will be the economy, stupid,” Carville continued. “We have to begin 2025 with that truth as our political north star and not get distracted by anything else.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: carville; economy; harris; loss; stupid
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To: ChicagoConservative27
It’s always going to be about the constitution.
2 posted on 01/02/2025 9:02:59 AM PST by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
To: ChicagoConservative27
We have to begin 2025 with that truth as our political north star and not get distracted by anything else
Translation: In spite of reality, the media blob must convince the gullible public that the economy has gotten worse under a Republican administration, they way they did in 1992.
3 posted on 01/02/2025 9:05:38 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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